Full membership currently costs $100 per year. Printing charges are extra, and are 7 cents per page on monochrome printers and 20 cents per page on the colour printer ("Rainbow"). There are currently no set quotas for any resource. Here is the application form. Benefits include:

1. Access to our 5 computer labs with a wide variety of machines, from PowerMac G3's to Pentiums to NeXTs, flatbed and slide scanners, Zip and Jaz drives, a CD-ROM burner, and software for tasks ranging from multimedia video editing to powerful statistics.
2. A full UNIX account
3. Disk space on the Zoology server, which is backed up nightly
4. Web site hosting
5. Mailing list support
6. Free subscription to anti-virus software (currently working out new bulk license arrangement, Sep'04).

The ZCU-maintained ZooLab is a Faculty of Science homework lab for undergraduates. The exception, it requires neither a free nor a full membership. Printing in ZooLab costs 12 cents per page, using a Zoology Printing Card which can be purchased at CopyRight in the Student Union Building.

Conditions of Use

The Zoology Computing Unit follows the guidelines laid out by UBC's Responsible Use of Information Technology PDF file.

We have a one person per ID policy for reasons of assigning responsibility to internet access and appropriate use. Other than protection of your private information, this is a big reason for keeping your password to yourself, and choosing a password that is difficult to guess.

Programs produced using ZCU facilities must be made available to the Computing Unit Library on request, accompanied by adequate documentation. Under no circumstances may they be sold commercially.

The following are grounds for having computing privileges revoked:
  - failure to follow the appropriate use guidelines
  - copying licensed software from this facility
  - installing unlicensed on ZCU computers
  - removing manuals from this facility
  - removing other people's files from ZCU disks
  - using the ZCU for non-UBC employment
  - rigging the computers to your personal preferences (instead ask the ZCU staff to change the standard setup)

Hours / Keys

The buildings are locked after 6pm weekdays, and on weekends. They are unlocked at 7am on weekdays. The computer rooms themselves are also locked. Any full member can get authorization to obtain keys for after-hour access to the facilities. Please be sure to lock the doors to ZCU computer rooms if you are the last to leave them after-hours, and set the alarm.

Locations

Wired and wireless ethernet connections are available throughout the Biological Sciences Building and the B Huts. A wired connection requires an available wall jack and a completed ethernet registration form. Just fill out this form and drop it off in the ZCU mailbox, room 2370. Once your computer is known to our servers, it will work in wall jacks all over the department -- there is no need to reconfigure, or to notify us, if you move your computer.

Wireless connectivity is managed by UBC's IT Services. To use it you need a wireless ethernet card in your computer and a Campus-Wide Login (CWL) account. Please see http://www.wireless.ubc.ca/main.html for complete information.

Dial-in Access

All graduate students are entitled to a free Netinfo account offered through UBC's IT Services. Faculty and staff are entitled to free Interchange-For-All accounts, which are similar. Faculty and staff wanting an IFA-5 account should contact Alistair Blachford, rather than IT Services. Netinfo accounts include 20 hours of dial-in time per month, and IFA-5 accounts have 5 free hours of dial-in time per month. One can use such an account to gain a dial-in connection to the Internet, and then have your e-mail, secure-shell or FTP software connect to the Zoology servers, if you choose. Use their dial-in and connect settings, but set up your e-mail, secure-shell and FTP programs with the settings below.

Connection Settings

via web-browser:
    For email access use webmail.
    For shell access use ssh.